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Kanye West for President? Not so fast

Sunday night’s MTV Music Video Awards were full of viral moments but the biggest surprise of the evening came from Kanye West. At the end of a six-minute long acceptance of the Video Vanguard Award, West insinuated that he had smoked marijuana before coming on stage and that he was planning to run for president in the 2020 U.S. election.

A PAC, Ready for Kanye, has already been registered with the Federal Election Commission. The PAC's creator, Eugene Craig III, is the 3rd vice-chair of the Maryland Republican Party and the chair of the Young Minority Republican Fund. “If you look at [Kanye West’s] policy positions over the years, he’s anti-corporatist and pro-small business and pro-entrepreneurship. That sounds like a Republican to me,” he tells Yahoo Finance. “A party that welcomes Donald Trump would welcome Kanye West,” he says.

Kanye has not identified with a particular party, but has endorsed President Obama in the past and asked his fans to vote for Democrats during the midterm elections.

Craig isn’t the only person taking Kanye’s announcement seriously. The website KanyeForPresident.com was registered earlier this year and “Kanye 2020” t-shirts are already available for sale.

But Kanye has made big plans in the past that didn’t quite turn out the way he envisioned they would. From producing a failed puppet-comedy TV pilot at Jim Henson Studios to creating a fashion line that collapsed just two days after its look book was released, Kanye’s grandiose ideas haven’t always worked out.

But anything is possible and 2020 is still a long ways off. And who wouldn’t love to hear Kanye’s rendition of Hail to the Chief?

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